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The Bureau forecasts an unusually warm summer
30/11/2023 - National
Issued: Thursday 30 November
The Bureau's summer long-range forecast shows a high chance of warmer than usual days and nights across Australia, below average rainfall is likely for much of the tropics and Western Australia, and a more neutral rainfall signal for the rest of the continent.
After a drier than usual... read more...
Notification of essential maintenance
01/12/2023 - National
Issued: Friday 1 December 2023
The Bureau of Meteorology will be conducting essential system maintenance and services will be unavailable during the following times:
11:35 pm AEDT on Monday 4 December and 00:05 am AEDT on Tuesday 5 December 2023 - between 5 and 30 minutes.
Some Bureau products and services may experience data delays between 00:35 am and 6:00 am on Tuesday 5 December 2023.
Maintenance will be rescheduled... read more...
Bureau of Meteorology website delivers better access to water information for the Murray Darling Basin
30/11/2023 - National
Issued: Thursday, 30 November
The Bureau of Meteorology has added new features to the Murray–Darling Basin Water Information Portal, a website designed as a central source of water information for the Basin. This is the last of 5 main staged releases, completing the 3-year development of the portal.
The new features include additional river diagrams, First Nations Cultural information, photographs of rivers, storage infrastructure and... read more...
Heavy rain and severe thunderstorms across eastern Australia
29/11/2023 - National
Issued: 1:30pm AEDT Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Persistent, heavy rain continues for parts of southern eastern Australia, including New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria and Queensland.
The rain is being driven onshore by a deep low pressure system which is sitting over New South Wales. This is coupled by a corresponding low in the upper atmosphere which is amplifying the rainfall totals.
Here is a summary of the weather across the... read more...